The FileMaker Pro version of ISL was reviewed by Sebastian Fink and Noah Kröll before providing it to Steve Tinney. A broad context for the work was provided by regular online meetings of an international group of collaborators consisting of Sebastian Fink (Innsbruck), Noah Kröll (Innsbruck), Niek Veldhuis (Berkeley), Aleksi Sahala (Helsinki), Krister Lindén (Helsinki), and Steve Tinney (Philadelphia).
For the Ershahungas, the decision was jointly made to use the editions prepared by Jeremie Peterson for BLMS [http://oracc.org/blms] instead of the ones in the ISL FMP database.
Some texts not in ISL were added by Steve Tinney, including Uruʾamirabi.
The basic numbering schemes have been taken from the editors of the various subcorpora. For the balags, the balag-numbers are based on the Nineveh Kalutu Catalogue (NKC) as used in Jeremy Black's "Sumerian Balag Compitions", BiOr 44 (1987):32-79. For the Shuilas, compositions for which only the incipit is attested are given numbers of the form X₁, etc.
The names of compositions except for those in the Catalogues section are uniformly based on the incipt of the text. Most of these are taken from the NKC, restored from colophons and other sources. Half-brackets and language shifts are not used in the names.